No Camera coverage of 12/4 CVV presentation

[Doug Grinbergs <saule@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, I contacted the Camera last weekend about their lack of coverage of the CVV presentation to the commissioners. When I called the newsroom to discuss this, I was told that the Camera had covered the issue and was challenged as to the newsworthiness of the event. My response:

>Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:47:45 -0700
>To: news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>Here are some reasons why I think the Thursday meeting was newsworthy, and why I'm surprised it didn't merit coverage by the Camera. At least, I hope some of these points will be included in future stories. (I believe the ball is, in effect, in the office of the county clerk and an announcement forthcoming in the next week.)
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>* Dozens of citizens (I'm guessing almost double of one news report of 30) show up for 10:30 Thursday county commissioners meeting.
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>* Group's "paper ballots only" position has support of four Boulder County political parties (in reverse alphabetical order):
>-Republicans
>-Libertarians
>-Greens
>-Democrats
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>* Danish promises there will be at least one public hearing, a new development
>* Mayer, a Linux user, supports open source
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>* Media coverage of the meeting includes county papers, but now includes Denver media:
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>12/05/2003 Rocky Mountain News/Berny Morson: Boulder panel wary of electronic voting
>http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2479310,00.html
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>County commissioners waded into a national fight over electronic voting Thursday, saying that they are skeptical about systems that don't produce a hard-copy ballot... A blanket rejection of a purely electronic system would make Boulder a flash point in a national controversy... Commissioner Tom Mayer said that open-source software "should be part of the consideration."
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>12/05/2003 Colorado Daily/Richard Valenty: Voting activists pack hearing
>http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2003/12/05/news/news04.txt
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>12/05/2003 Daily Times-Call/Trevor Hughes: Leaders in favor of paper balloting
>http://coloradovoter.net/bcv-archive/msg00455.html